For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for September 02, 2016

A good deed like that shouldn’t be punished.

I remember in kindergarten, a hundred years ago, and marveling at how big the third graders across the hall were.

Very sweet of Elizabeth!

They grow fast. Also showing such altruism at a young age is a good predictor of the rest of their life. Some are and some are not.

A few years ago the mother of one of my son’s classmates expressed her gratitude for my son helping her daughter in their math class. When I relayed her thanks to him he had no idea what I was talking about. It’s just natural for him to be helpful where he can and had no idea what a big deal it can be to some.

since when did she become kind? most of the time she is a little witch….

She’s a teacher in the making! It shows up early, doesn’t it? I have seen the “older” kids on the playground help out the younger ones, even though they didn’t know them or have to do it. It’s either in you or it isn’t.

The first and only appearance of Mrs. Kinney. Lizzie’s Grade 2 teacher will be older and single and more bedraggled.

Little is relative

My second son has always been bigger than my first, despite being several years younger.

When I was in kindergarten we were lined up next to the grade sixer’s at assembly.They looked like giants next to us,and the teachers like Sasquatch,and the principal like God! Which of course he was,or so he thought.

We had those scarey nuns – some were huge and a couple were just about our size, but they were sure scarey.